“This wasn’t an easy decision, especially since we’ve built up a base of dedicated users. If Hot Potato was going to sell to anyone, Facebook was the natural choice. Facebook is still small, moves fast, provides a great supportive environment for people to be entrepreneurial, and most importantly, Facebook builds great products. We’re looking forward to joining their team.”

The startup also says that they’ll be shutting down all operations in about a month and delete all data, as we anticipated. New user registrations have already been turned off, and Hot Potato says it will soon offer existing users a way to download their information from the site (here). No user data or account information will be kept by Facebook, they add.